Disinformation doesn’t care about your facts. Here’s how you can fight back

Changing minds, it turns out, often begins with shifting networks.

In 2011, the 9/11 truther Charlie Veitch released a cellphone video renouncing his earlier belief that the terrorist attack was an “inside job.” As David McRaney explained in How Minds Change, the backlash was “swift and brutal.” Veitch was relentlessly harassed and his website was hacked. There were even death threats.